I am seemingly a collection of differences; a mountain man living on the plains, a small town boy living in the city, and a simple soul working in a high-tech environment. I love being outside, but work inside, quick to cry at a Kodak commercial, but with a military background. But most of all, I am the father of a wonderful boy with Cerebral Palsy.

Oct 7, 2011

I was recently tagged in a meme by The Jules from the always entertaining blog, The Gravel Farm. If you haven't read The Jules, please go over and peruse some of his wonderful tidbits from across the pond. You won't be disappointed!

He received it from the blog of Mr London Street and like the good paramedic that he is, passed on the contagion to me without gloves, disinfectant, or a care in the world! I was surprised when he added to my tag the words "SkylersDad – Because I’ve always admired intelligence when it’s mixed with humility."

Obviously a cut and paste error on his part...

It proved to be a very difficult meme to write, because it required two things that I don't have; time to research or patience! You are simply to answer 7 questions about your posts, listing the different posts that meet the category. Now I have been at this a bit of a while, and have amassed 1347 posts. So this required me looking back a bit, because trying to rely on my aging and fuzzy brain is just not the way to go. I am not listing just one post, but a couple for each category. Not that I feel they all made the grade, but because I couldn't decide.

So here we go, strap in on tight as they say...

1. Your most beautiful postHappy Veterans DayI wrote this in remembrance of my only friend that I lost while serving in the Navy.

What lies below the surfaceThe toughest admission I have ever made to you all, about my feelings when one of my friend’s son passed away

4. Your most helpful post

All the bat tat series, because if I can't entertain, at least I can serve as a warning to others.

May 30, 1975Where I try and educate the young and non-runners about what Prefontain was all about.Feedback from an old story of mineFrom a guy who lost his parents in a story I posted about a local plane crash, which is listed under #7 below.

6 comments:

You have written so many posts that fit so many different categories -- touching, funny, honest, sickening (some of the bad tats, for example!), revealing, hilarious, tear-jerking, fascinating... and I would not call your sports posts "yawn inducing" (but maybe others would?).

I want to start at Day one of your blog and move forward to now... I think I shall. <3 VERY NICELY DONE, Chris and I'm SO GLAD you took the time to do this. Weird how it kind of made me come back to the "now"... to what is really important...did it do that to you too?